From childhood’s hour I have not been. As others were, I have not seen. As others saw, I could not awaken. My heart to joy at the same tone. And all I loved, I loved alone.
EDGAR ALLAN POEThat man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.
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I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.
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All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
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Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence.
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Let my heart be still a moment and this mystery explore.
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The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?
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Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.
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Sleep, those little slices of death – how I loathe them.
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If a poem hasn’t ripped apart your soul; you haven’t experienced poetry.
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That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful.
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Even for those to whom life and death are equal jests. There are some things that are still held in respect.
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Happiness is not to be found in knowledge, but in the acquisition of knowledge.
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In efforts to soar above our nature, we invariably fall below it.
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To die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths!
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Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries.
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And so being young and dipped in folly I fell in love with melancholy.
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